Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her forty-four year life , Mary ruled for only six , so that we are faced with another thirty-eight years when she had virtually no role in her kingdom , being a minor and absentee ruler for the first nineteen , and a deposed queen for the second . |
| 2 | She recorded everything that passed in the room , but she cared for only one person . |
| 3 | Cheryl gazed for only half a minute . |
| 4 | A pristine Globe Swift sold for only $ 28,500 . |
| 5 | A Baptism of Christ by sixteenth-century Venetian artist Carlotto Carliari sold for only FFr30,000 ( £3,000 ; $5,300 ) , within its estimate , a seventeenth-century oil on copper of the Holy Family attributed to the ‘ entourage ’ of Sassoferrato went for FFr29,000 ( £2,900 ; $5,100 ) and a Virgin and Child attributed to eighteenth-century French painter Jean Restout went under the hammer for FFr 22,000 . |
| 6 | Estimated at $20–30,000 it sold for only $16,000 ( £8,900 ) to a private collector . |
| 7 | Some of Thomson 's holidays to Spain sold for only £25 a week or £35 for two weeks , and 500 Intasun Holidays were offered for £39 each . |
| 8 | She lived for only seven weeks during which time her two sisters , Clare , five , and Victoria , three , bought her a small teddy bear . |
| 9 | As clouds of the invaders reached Texas , a U N fact-finding commission reported that the Odonata ( it now became their official name ) lived for only seven months in their adult winged phase . |
| 10 | In all the time she was there she asked for only two things , and in both cases I had to disappoint her . |
| 11 | Sandison called over to Franco but asked for only one glass of the special liqueur . |
| 12 | Some advertisements asked for only ‘ a reasonable figure to cover F & F. ’ But how much was that ? |
| 13 | Simultaneous food and acid reflux occurred for only 0.95% of the time . |
| 14 | Simultaneous food and acid reflux occurred for only 0.95+5.2/-1.2% of the time . |
| 15 | When his train stopped with only one carriage next to the platform , a voice lamented : ‘ British Rail regrets we are a total failure . ’ |
| 16 | The level of investment by the BEA rose from only £92 millions in the financial year 1948/9 to £125 millions in 1950/1 and £196 millions in 1954/5 ( only about two-fifths of this overall rise being accounted for by the fall in the real value of the pound ) . |
| 17 | And in the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten , by far the largest ‘ bourgeois ’ newspaper in the Munich area but also with much wider circulation , the 44 per cent of May and June 1940 had dropped by June and July 1941 to 29 per cent , reached 15 per cent for the period October to December 1941 , and sank to only 7 per cent by October and November 1942 . |
| 18 | The Roman empire saw the increasing debasement of its staple silver coin : from almost pure silver in the early first century AD it sank to only 50 per cent fine by about AD200 and to only about 1–2 per cent by AD270 . |
| 19 | In a very brief account of his journey , Thomas Garvine referred to only 8 places he had visited between St. Petersburg and Peking . |
| 20 | He referred to only one of the Opposition 's policies that would wreak havoc on the British economy . |
| 21 | Certainly US inflation subsequently had been extremely low ; between 1952 and 1967 the US wholesale price index rose at only 0.8 per cent a year . |
| 22 | Of the eleven general Forest inquests held during the period 1297–1305 in the forests of Rockingham , King 's Cliffe , Whittlewood and Salcey , Despenser presided at only one ; the remainder were held before Robert of Harrowden , his deputy . |
| 23 | Germany 's imports from France rose by only 7% last year in D-mark terms , well down from the 13% average rise in 1988 and 1989 , even as the rate of growth in France 's imports from Germany slumped from 15% to 1% . |
| 24 | The non-farm workforce rose by only 19,000 compared with an increase of between 50,000 and 75,000 predicted by economists . |
| 25 | The Inland Revenue raised £79.4 billion , down 3½ p.c. , while Customs and Excise receipts rose by only 11½ p.c. to £61.8 billion despite a 17 p.c. increase in the rate of value added tax to 17½ p.c. , reflecting low sales of consumer items attracting VAT . |
| 26 | ( In fact , the Durable Household Goods Index rose by only 5% in 1980 compared with a 15% rise in the Retail Price Index . ) |
| 27 | Sheep numbers doubled during this period in Wales ; Scottish sheep numbers rose by only 12% . |
| 28 | British Airways chief Lord King ‘ must have been delighted with his 64 per cent pay rise as BA 's profits rose by only 19 per cent , ’ says the report . |
| 29 | In the 12 months to April consumer prices rose by only 3.2% . |
| 30 | On average , Labour 's vote rose by only 3% more in Tory wards where Labour started off second to the Conservatives than in seats where it was third . |